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Example sentences from the Web for shearsA good pair of shears should be heavy and sharp; this pair, which I use, is both. The 2012 Holiday Kitchen Gift Guide|Megan McArdle|December 13, 2012|DAILY BEAST And no, he did not come to clients' homes himself with a pair of shears to do the snipping to their personal specifications. Balmain's Big Rip-Off|Robin Givhan|April 6, 2011|DAILY BEAST They worked together at quarter and center like a pair of shears. Bert Wilson on the Gridiron|J. W. Duffield My mother and my aunt set to work with shears and needles and built me a suit of clothes out of the brown overcoat. The Iron Puddler|James J. Davis
As the beautiful roses fell beneath his shears, Mary caught up a tiny red rosebud. Mostly Mary|Mary Edward Feehan The machine-shearing saves much wool, as it gets closer to the skin of the sheep and shears more evenly. Textiles|William H. Dooley Mr. Austin Gilett passed in the company of two men whom Shears recognized as members of the English detective-force. The Blonde Lady|Maurice Leblanc
SEE SYNONYMS FOR shears ON THESAURUS.COM
pl n- large scissors, as for cutting cloth, jointing poultry, etc
- a large scissor-like and usually hand-held cutting tool with flat blades, as for cutting hedges
any of various analogous cutting or clipping implements or machines short for sheerlegs off the shears Australian informal (of a sheep) newly shorn Words nearby shearsshearing shed, shearlegs, shearling, shear modulus, shear pin, shears, shear strain, shear strength, shear stress, shear stud, shear transformation Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to shearsscissors, snips, nippers, clippers, pruner |